Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

952 SECOND MAY MEETING, 1939
APPENDIX A
HONORARY DEGREE
Voted February 24, 1939. Conferred at Convocation for Prospective Teachers, May 9, 1939. Characterization by Professor John G.
Winter (p. 920).
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
ALLEN SISSON WHITNEY. A graduate of the University of Michigan, for
many years a member of its faculty, now Professor Emeritus of Educational
Administration and Supervision and Dean Emeritus of the School of Education.
A teacher and administrator who labored long and effectively to improve standards
of training and who left the stamp of his personality on the School he helped to
organize and direct. In theory, as in practice, he never mistook shadow for substance, nor confused progress with noisy clamor for change. His influence in the
councils of schoolmen was deservedly great; his place in the continuing life of the
University remains forever sure.